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Your community Over Time
History: Social Science for California Our Communities
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Social Studies
3rd Grade
03/20/2012

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Words that tell you about the order of events
Definition
First and later
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Laborers
Definition
Workers
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Culture
Definition
The arts, beliefs, behavior, and ideas of a group of people
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Rancho
Definition
Land for farming and business
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Community
Definition
A place where people live, work and have fun together.
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Explorer
Definition
Someone who travels to new places to learn more about them.
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Sir Francis Drake
Definition
1579 north of San Francisco Bay known as Drake's Bay
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Sebastian Vizcaino
Definition
1602 and he arrived, explored and named Monterey Bay
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Juan Rodriquez Cabrillo
Definition
1542 in San Diego Bay
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John Sutter
Definition
Came to CA in 1839 and started a farming settlement and in 1848 one of his workers found gold on his land near Sacramento.
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Horace Wilcox
Definition
Came to CA in 1887 and started a religious community in Hollywood.
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Father Antonio Cruzado
Definition
He came from Spain and in 1804 planted what became California's first orange grove.
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Levi Strauss
Definition
In 1873 he started to make and sell denim blue jeans with another man when they saw that miners needed strong pants.
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James Marshall
Definition
a laborer who found gold while he was working at a sawmill near Sacramento.
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Father Junipero Serra
Definition
Founded the first mission in San Diego in 1769. He later founded 8 more of the 21 missions. These grew into towns.
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Effects of the transcontinental Railroad on CA
Definition
Goods and people could get to CA faster than ever before
thousands of workers came to Ca to help build it.
Towns grew near the tracks.
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Order of Events
Definition
1. 1769 Fr. Serra founds a mission in San Diego.
2. 1869 The Central Pacific Railroad became part of the 1st railroad to connect the East to the West.
3.1899 the town of Camarillo was named.
4. 1920 Hollywood becomes the center for our country's movie-making business.
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